Yvonne Orji, the sex-drunk character Molly in HBO series Insecure, is
proud to be a 33-year-old virgin, even though she is currently playing
the sexy role.
The Port Harcourt-born star said she is keeping herself for her husband.
“She is keeping it locked.
“I wasn’t going to hide it just because I’m on TV,” the Nigerian star told People. “I’m grounded in who I am.”
And
to show just how much she is dedicated to keeping her virginity, she
created a clothing line to promote abstinence. “I have a clothing
company called Rock Your Stance, and we sell shirts that say ‘Keeping it
locked till I get that rock’,” she said, adding, “Entertainment chose
me. Before any of this happened, I sat down with myself and with God. I
said, ‘I know why I’m here. It’s to make you proud.’”
Yvonne Orji
went further to speak about her career as an actress, adding that her
parents, like most Nigerian parents, wanted her to be a doctor.
“It
sounded noble,” she said. “But then I took organic chemistry and I was
like, ‘Well, maybe not.’ I ended up getting my master’s degree in public
health and then working in war-torn Liberia to stall from crushing my
parents’ hopes and dreams.”
She continued, “’It would take me
eight years to become a doctor, but give me eight years to make it in
entertainment,’” she recalled telling her family. “And I’m happy to say,
I did it in seven!”
She did it, and is promoting abstinence until marriage.
Her belief has invoked social media comments with spurious comments on twitters.
Morqos said: “ Why do people think Yvonne Orji is lying about her virginity? That’s such a stupid thing to lie about.”
Morgan
said “Yvonn Orji has said she’s a virgin like 100 times and y’all are
just now finding out today and making a big deal about it.”
“Yvonne
Orji is goals mate. Not because she’s a virgin but because she’s
unashamed to speak about it & link it to her faith in this day &
age,” says king woman, in her tweet.
Orji emigrated to the U.S.
from Nigeria at age 6. “It was the traditional immigrant story of my
parents wanting the best for us and bringing us here,” she says. But
life in Maryland wasn’t always easy.
“I was bullied because I
have this thick Nigerian accent,” she recalls. “My mom would say, ‘We
didn’t come to America for you to be popular.’ Which is fair, but as a
kid, you’re just like, it would be really nice to have this thing that
everyone else has.”
Later, after graduating with a master’s
degree in public health from George Washington University, Orji says she
shocked her family (who had always hoped she’d be a doctor), by
announcing she wanted to move to New York to pursue stand-up comedy.
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